Species · genus Peperomia · Piperaceae

Raindrop Peperomia

Peperomia polybotrya Kunth

Also known as: Coin-Leaf Peperomia · Raindrop Plant

Growth habit

Unknown

Native range

Colombia, Ecuador, Peru

Reference · P. polybotrya

Cultivars of P. polybotrya

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under P. polybotrya yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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Peperomia polybotrya is a small Piperaceae native to the humid forests of Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru, where it grows in dappled understory shade. Its thick, coin-shaped leaves store water, so it tolerates and prefers drying out between waterings; water only when the top inch or two of mix is dry, and err toward keeping it on the drier side to avoid rot. Give it bright indirect light and a freely draining mix.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 14 days

Humidity

Medium

Temperature

16–27 °C

Soil mix

Chunky, free-draining mix with perlite

Propagation

Leaf or stem cuttings in moist mix

Fertilizing

Dilute balanced feed monthly in spring and summer

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Slim green spikes; grown for glossy raindrop-shaped succulent leaves

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Non-toxic to cats & dogs

Peperomia (Piperaceae) — ASPCA lists multiple Peperomia non-toxic (e.g. watermelon peperomia, P. argyreia); genus-wide safe. This is where toxicity lives: every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d) · ai:claude-fable-5 · ASPCA

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